Affirmative Action Business and Higher Education If you were to look at someone and based off of appearance, would you be able to determine if that person would be a good friend to you. Would they be caring, unselfish and reliable? Now, lets switch gears and say you're part of the admissions committee for a large, prominent university. Again, based on ones race, would you be able to determine if an applicant is a "good …showed first 75 words of 1885 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1885 total…not a manner of persuasive writing, but a mechanism for questioning the ideals that you yourself hold. Hopefully this paper made you think to yourself "Huh, well that sheds a new light on what I thought I knew", but then again maybe not. Whether you know it or not though, by reading this paper you have taken that first step to becoming a more educated and opinionated citizen, now what if everyone took that step?